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Youth for Remembrance – Handbook on Youth-Led Remembrance of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust
The publication "Youth for Remembrance - Handbook on Youth-Led Remembrance of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust" provides a detailed approach to youth-led remembrance efforts, with a focus on the Roma and Sinti Holocaust and its relevance in modern society. It allows young people to develop and organize innovative, community-based commemorations that remember the past while addressing ongoing concerns such as antigypsyism and shrinking democratic spaces. The handbook contains examples of grassroots initiatives, tools, and approaches that can be used to encourage high-quality, sustainable activities and amplify the voices of young people.
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Follow-up Initiatives: Second phase of the ‘DIKH HE NA BISTER – Engaging Youth in Remembrance and Action’ project funded by European Youth Foundation
Part of our project, the follow up phase is an important point in making sure that at local level, through our partner organizations and the young people who participated in the DIKH HE NA BISTER 2024 event, local commemorations activities that resonate deeply with them and their communities are organized. TENET, one of our partner organization that has been part of this stage of the project, developed on of this year’s follow up activity: TITLE OF THE INITIATIVE: Agents of Remembrance: Roma Youth Movement This initiative features a diverse series of activities designed to engage and inspire young people to become active participants in the Roma Youth Remembrance Movement. By…
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How to get around our event space
All of the buildings are close together Here you can find a map of all the important locations for Dikh He Na Bister 2024! A detailed list of addresses and links We are staying again in Żaczek Hotel, west of the Old Town in Kraków: al. 3 Maja 5, 30-063 Kraków, Polska Our sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday will take place in the Pedagogical University/ Basen Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego at the address: Romana Ingardena 4, 30-060 Kraków, Polska. You will need your wristbands to enter the University buildings! On Wednesday we will go to the exhibition opening in the Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University: http://www.uj.edu.pl/ If you’d like to…
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We are reclaiming the Sunflower as a Symbol for the Life and Resistance of Roma!
We are shaping our own narrative The sunflower is a potent symbol for the Roma. The great Romni Ceija Stojka, a Holocaust Survivor and Activist, considered it the “Flower of the Roma” and it is present all over her paintings and texts. This year, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of 2 August 1944, we have decided to honor Ceijas love for the sunflower and give it a prominent place in Dikh He Na Bister – Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative. E Kamesgi Luludschi – the sunflower, by Ceija Stojka The sunflower is the flower of the Roma.It provides nourishment, it is life.And the women adorn themselves with it.It is…
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Our Facilitators for Dikh He Na Bister 2024
We are very proud to announce our 16 wonderful facilitator teams for Dikh He Na Bister 2024! They will lead their groups of young participants from all over Europe though a 5-day learning experience in Kraków and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum site. They will lead workshops on challenging topics such as Roma and Holocaust History and will prepare the participants for the commemoration ceremonies on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of 2 August 1944, European Holocaust Memorial Day for Roma and Sinti. And, of course, the facilitators will also empower them to speak out and to take action today! The training of these 32 dedicated facilitators took place…
